Imagine telling Michaelangelo that instead of spending four years of back-breaking work and creative genius painting the Creation of Adam on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, he could have just taped a banana to it and made a fortune.
Re: Aaand, In Other News...
Posted: Thu Nov 21, 2024 5:33 pm
by Raid
Of course it was bought by a crypto "entrepreneur". Could have given their ill-gotten wealth to a charity and done some good in the world, but instead they paid $5.2million for an entirely worthless statement.
Re: Aaand, In Other News...
Posted: Thu Nov 21, 2024 6:55 pm
by Mantis
I'm sure there's some other angle here that we're all not aware of. Like money laundering.
I can't decide if this turmoil in South Korea is the most half-arsed coup attempt in history or something that came disturbingly close to success but was defeated with lightning speed. On the one hand, you have an unpopular president with little political power who thought declaring martial law without any sort of contingencies would be fine, and on the other hand you've got MPs bashing past police and military, scaling fences, to get into parliament to veto the martial law, with rumours that Yoon was attempting to arrest the major political leaders. As daft a move as it seems now the dust is settling, I can't help but feel we came incredibly close to another SK dictatorship.
Also concerning that this is plausibly the sort of move Trump could attempt in the next few years. It probably (hopefully) won't come to that, but it has to have crossed his mind.
Re: Aaand, In Other News...
Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2024 9:01 am
by Raid
I've been trying to find any detail on his whole "this is to protect us against the anti-government enemies from the north!" reasoning, other than the general distrust of their Northern neighbour, but the coverage I've seen hasn't really commented on it. Was it just a crackpot populist conspiracy theory or does the South regularly deal with infiltrators from North Korea? The former is basically the same logic I'd see Trump using were he to at some point impose martial law in the States, and frankly, one of the measures I genuinely see as being realistic to deal with his deportation promise.
Either way, it's nice to see an idiot of a leader thoroughly rebuked like this by both sides of a democratic government. I wish it happened more often.